The world’s annual production of cloves between 2004-2018 was 167.5K MT (metric tons). For five years (2014-2018), the production growth rate was +16.9%, but there’s a decline of 8.4% in the three years (2016-2018) and -2.1% of growth rate for one year until 2018 was +2.6%. Indonesia was the largest producer in 2018, having contributed about 73.7% of the world’s production. This was followed by Madagascar (13.9%), Tanzania (5.4%), and Sri Lanka (3.3%).